December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 27m
English
As noted in Chapter 1, "What Is Java?," in the list of basic Java features, Java is network-savvy or network-ready. It's easy to do low-level network programming in Java. It is much easier to program using sockets in Java than it is in C or C++. There are two important aspects to Java's network support. First, Java covers up much of the complexity and platform-specific code required, for example, to use sockets. The second property of Java networking is that Java comes with classes to support the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). Java's networking support focuses primarily on TCP/IP and HTTP.
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Networking requires connecting between systems, even between two threads of a program on the same physical ...
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